Connections Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1999

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inside this issue:
Director's Column .. 1 Libraries' Web ..... 2 Collections Move . . . 2
Perspective
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What's New
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Academic Universe
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LSTA Grant
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Discourse Series ... 6 CRL Records 7 Our Staff 7 Exhibits 8 Library Hours ..... 8
a newsletterfrom the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges
FALL 1999 Volume 10 Number 1
DIRECTOR'S COLUMN
During the past year, I have been asked more than once, " Why do you keep changing thingsr" The answer is that these changes have occurred because of our need to provide for the growth of our traditional collections as well as for the new services that have accompanied technological innova­tions.
For example, as we have added electronic and multimedia services, we have had to design and aHocate space to accommodate them. As a result of this and our need to provide more shelving for growing print collections as well as improved space for our library users and staff, a complete reorga­nization
of spaces in the Honnold/ Mudd complex has been and still is essential. So, it may be easy to answer the question, but as they say, the devil is in the details.
Over a period ofabout fifteen months beginning in the summer of 1998, we moved approximately 90 percent of the general collections in Honnold/ Mudd. Some books and journals were moved twice or more over that period, and we appreciate your understanding while we completed the relocations. All journals, except current issues, are now located on Honnold 1st floor. Those published prior to 1980, including all titles formerly in storage, are housed on compact shelving installed in spring 1999. Preparations for utilizing this shelving set in motion a " domino effect" that necessitated moving some staff areas as weH as collections. AU books, with the exception ofthe J's, are now in place where they will stay this academic year.
Vve look forward this faU to a respite from construction and renovation in the building. During semester break, however, minor projects such as moving the J's into Honnold 3rd floor and preparing the South Wing for housing the Asian Studies vernacular collections will be undertaken. Then, there will be another brief respite until the end of Spring Semester. Extensive renovation of the Honnold building, soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary, is slated to begin in mid- May. Disruption in services will be inevitable as we begin projects that include a new heating and air condi­tioning
system and replacement of the electrical infrastructure. Updates during the academic year will be provided to enable you to plan according­ly
for use of collections and services. As always, we pledge to listen to your needs and to do our best to provide you resources and services necessary for your teaching and research activities. •
Bonnie Clemens Director ofI ibraries, ext. 18045 bdemens@ rocky. claremont. edu
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Based on your comments and suggest. ions over the past year and a half, we have made a number of changes and enhancements to increase the usability and performance of the Libraries' website.
You may recognize the stained glass windows from our previous website but will notice that the layout and design have been optimized to best serve all of our users, regardless of individual machine or connection capabillties. The site has been reorganized with more intuitive section headings and descriptions in an effort to make things easier to find. \ Ve've also added menus to the homepage to give on- campus users with 4th generation web browsers more direct access to specific pages right from our main page. The intent of this revision is to make the Libraries' website more user- friendly in both organization and performance. Vlie hope you like it. And, as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.•
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Honnold/ Mudd
1 to 2, then 4 to 7. N folios on first
Collections
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stack. P folios behind stairs on each level.)
In llbrary surveys, many of you
> Q, R, S,' T, U, v and Z -- Mudd 1st
asked that the colkctions In north, compact shelving. ( Folios at the
HonnoldlM udd be arranged more
east end, standard shelving.)
logically. A library team was formed to plan a new arrangement for the build­Locations
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ing, and to ckal wit. h areas that were overcrowded. Moving completed, we Asian Studies.
present the new call number locations Honnold 1st floor, southeast corner,
in HonnoldlM udd Library.
mezzanine and basement.
Call tlumben:
Government Documents.
> , Ii, C, D and E -- Honnold 4th.
- International and California docu­(
Folios at tl1e end of each call number.)
ments are on New 1st nort. h.
> I,; G, H, J and K -- Honnold 3rd - United States documents are on
( J in south wing. Folios at the end of Mudd lst north, in two sets ofcompact
each call number.)
shelving near the Copy Center, and on
> Land. 1 -- New .3rd ( Folios at the Mudd lst east, behind the Multi- tier
end of each call number.)
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PERSPECTiVE
So much has changed in the ten years that I have been at the Honnold/ Mudd Library. Every year something moves; something surfaces; some­thing
disappears from view. New technology requires new configurations; new configura­tions
expose a need for new technologies. This summer I was beginning to feel com­pletely
lost. So I decided to
take a tour of our changing workplace. I started on the first floor of Honnold and mar­veled
at all those journals out of storage and in plain view. Next I climbed to the fourth floor ( Which now begins with A and ends with E); stumbled down to the third floor to find more than enough room for F­K;
zigzagged to the J's in the almost empty South Wing and skirted past Glenn as he disas­sembled
some more shelves. I bridged the New Library's L's and M's and floated down through the P's in the Multi­tier
Stacks. Then I took a quick peek into the corners of Mudd's first floor where micro­forms,
the international and California collections, books N­Z
and the reshelving area had all found new homes. Reassured and relieved, I made it back to my desk in the Search Center. It's all still here," I thought to myself. " It makes sense!" I smiled. " And
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2I CONNECTIONS a newsletter from the libraries to thefacuity of The Claremont Colleges Electronic Resources and Databases
Science Resources
The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges have some new and exciting electronic resources in the sciences. The Web of Science and the online full- text version of the American Chemical Society's journals are iu · t two of the new resources now available to the studen ts, beulty and staff of The Claremont Colle es.
Web of Science provides access to scholarly citations and abstracts for books and journals in horll the sciences and the social sciences. Going back to 1994, the Web of Science database indexes over 6,900 journals and is updated daiJy. It also provides links to manv full- text articles. This cross- dis­ciplinary
database is great for finding the most heavily cited articles and books in the science' and social sci­ences.
It is also useful for providing direct links to some of the full- text journals to which we subscrihe elec­tronic.
ally It expands and replaces Science Citation Index.
The American Chemical Society has recently made available online all of their 2 ' journab going !. Jack to 1996. ' l'he Claremont College' arc part of a group of ."\ 0 small colle'f ' s throughout the .. S. participating in a piJot project Por one year ~() r fn: e. The ACS titles can he reached throu'h Blais or through the Li!. Jraries' website ( http:// voxlibris . claremont. edu) or directly at http:// pubs . acs. org/ journals.
Subject searching for articles in the chemistry journals is !. Jest done through STN Easy ( see below).
Other society published journal collections are also availa!. Jle to The Claremont Colleges. The American Physical Society/ American Institute of Physics Electronic Journals and the Institute of Physics ( London) Electronic Journals are two more examples. Through the American Institute of Physics we get 16 full- text journals to which we subscribe in paper. From the Institute of Physics \\ Ie get all . j3 of t11eir published jour­nals.
Each collection can be re,; ched either from the Libraries' web pages, or directly at the following URLs:
AJPS/ llDP http:// ojps. aip. org/
lOP http:// www. iop. org/ EJ/ S/ l/ NCL136000/ 7Mival\ search& opt= Searchall
STN Easy is by far the easiest interface to use to search chemistry lit­crature.
A web- based resourcc, STN Easy provides access to all the journals, books, patents, etc., indexed in Chemical Abstracts from 1967- pres­ent.
New to us this year, it is only avail­abk
to Claremont Colleges students, faculty and staff before 8: 00 a. m. and after 5: 00 p. m. Monday - Friday and all day weekends. ( Use the CA Student Edition on FirstSeareh for searches at other times.) Reach STN Easy through the Libraries' website under RI'Jcardz > Data/) ases by Tit/ e.
Another great nev\! resource is th · ' set of databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. CSA provides access to over 60 biblioo'raphic and a few full- text databases in Llinlnay
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applied life sciences, environmental science. , enginecring, materials science and more. CSA allows simultaneous searching of more than Olll; database in , rious . ubject groups. Some of tbesc
specialized databases go back as far as 1981. •
Brian Fberso! f}, Sedey G. / l1udd Science and Spragne Libraries Sciellcc Libran'an beberso! d2; rocky. claremont. edit
Mapping with GIS
GIS ( Geographic Information Systems) makes it possible to create your own maps.
Create maps showing J'UIW data or that of data provided with new map­ping
software ( ArcView GIS).
Using ArcView GIS software's powerful visualization tools, you can acceSS records from existing databases and display them on maps. The soft­ware
is a sophisticated tool for analvsis and display of gcographjc arcas ; nd data; it is the latest technology available in the fielcl.
This new software is available un the CIS workstation in the 1uLtimcdia Room in the Honnold/ Mudd Search Ceoter. GIS is availahle tor use by appointment. Thc software requires expertise, and its use will bc mediated by a librarian for the foreseeable future. Please call x18923 or x73959 to make an appointment to use GIS software.•
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3 / CONNECTIONS a newsletterfmm the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont ColLef? es What's ew CQIl1' d. from puge 3
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elta on ndex Online
New Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe provides full text news, lega. l informa­tion
( including law
journals) and some
business i. nforma­tion.
Last year two interfaces were available to access the database. One was what we think ofas " the original Lexis- Nexis." Accessible through telnet, it was command driven ( yOll type in commands at a prompt). The second was a newer web interface; it was si. mplified to make it more user­friendly,
but that simplification made it much less flexible.
In the past year Congressional Information Service, which provides access to Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe, has worked with a design team of students, faculty and librarians from CaLifornia State University at Los Angeles, The College of V. ilLiam and Mary, Georgia State University,
Tnivcn; it;', Ohiu State ni , en; ity of alifomia The Univcr<; ily of Pennsylvania, The lIivcrsity of Richmond, and The University of ' vVasllngton to re eignth w b ver­,
Ion of Lexis- Nexis Academic
niverse. Their goal was tvvo fold. They
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wanted to combine
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tJle ease of use of the eXlst1ng web version of Academic
niverse with dle search flexibility of the telnet form of Lex.. is- N~ xis. The redesigned version : Jffers two searc h modes. In the Basic Search mode l. exis­you
to I1Hrro • the search.
Thi' n: dt: Sign ' Iauld r or affect hI: !.: On enl available; the new I cadenuc Universe will acce.' hI: ' ame Jarab~ I,; available through the old wLb lillcrface.
hat lata ase has c angec over t lC years. Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe, like other online services providing
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http:// voxlibris, claremont. edu/ research/ ln. html
Nexis takes control () f tbe search strategy. Each search form in Basic Search is designed to run a structured search through the data­base,
cutting down on the number of unrelated documents novice searchers encounter. Researchers searching for more obscure topics may prefer to use the More Options mode, designed to combine complete flexibility with the convenience of pull- down menus. If you think that the concept you are searching is more likely to show up in the tc) urth paragraph than in the first, the " More Options" search should ' ive you the best results.
The new design facilitates " t1nding m lre" and " finding less." Once a search is completed you can view the results to check their relevance. If they are on target, but too few documents were tC) l1nd, a "! YIore Like This" option commands the database to analyze the current ar6cle and find more with sim­ilar
content. If, when viewing the results, you realize that the search needs to be narrowed or restructured, " Focus" and " Edit Search" options are available on the results screen to allow access to content from puhlications produced by many different compa­nies,
can only offer the content which the publishers make available. Sometimes publications disappear when the publisher decides it wou. ld be more protltable to offer them in other ways; at adler t. imes publications are added when a publisher decides that offering access through Lexis- Nexis is the best option. It's likely that many online " bundles" of publications like Lexis- Nexis Adademic ' niverse wi. ll have frequent changes in available con­tent
for the forseeable future.
You can use Lex: is- Nex. is Academic Universe on or off campus ( both the tel net and weh versions), as long as you have an active Libraries of The Claremont Colleges ID. The web ver­sion
is available off campus through a program caLled " ReurolVser." ' We hope this meets the needs of our students and faculty who have been asking for access from home to the wcb version of I. exis- exis Academic Universe. •
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- ı L- brary Services and Technology Act ( LS ' A):
1Grantfor tht; Conversion ofCaliformana in tlie Libraries' pCCtat Collections
f speci< L interesr to ruclcms on sc lolars of th ' listory LUi · om. ia and \ Vestern Americana arc the \ aerner Collection in Honnold/ Mudd Special Collections and the Macpherson ] l'easure and \ Vestern Americana Collections in Denison] ibrary. Thanks to an LSTA Retrospective Conversion grant from the California State Library, these collections are now accessible through Blais,
. ink+ and OCLC's \ VoridCat. Previously they were accessible only through special collections bibliographies and carcl catalogs.
The Wagner Collection, assembled by Henry Raup Wagner for the writing of Ilis book, Cartography of lltt? Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800 ( University of California Press, 1937), includes rare books and maps of the dis­covery
and exploration of the northwest coast of America. The Western Americana Collection, with many titles in Spanish, provides valuable informa6on ahout the history of California counties, communities and culture. The Macpherson Treasure Collection, with first- hand accounts of women in CaJif() rnia and the \ Vest, is a signifIcant resource for \<\ Tomen's Studies, particularly the role of \' v'omen on the American frontier.
The Lihraries are committed to promoting the use of these collections and making them avaLlablc. They will be teatured in future library exhibits and dass­es.
For more information, please contact Jean Beckner ( Honnold/ Mudd Special Collections) at x73977 or Judy Harvey Sahak ( Denison Library) at x73941, or send email to spcoll g rocky. claremont. edu. •
fud)' J\!! osel; Honnold/ Mudd Cataloging Librarian jmoser OJ, " OCky. claremont. edu
Beginning in May 2000, Honnold will be under­going
some renovation and upgrades to major infrastructure systems. This means that the Honnold building will be closed for a period of time and access to some collections in that build­ing
will be limitcd. Planning is underway to mini­mize
the impact of this renovation on the Colleges community. The Mudd building will rcmain open and services currently in Honnold will be tem­porarily
relocated. \ Natch for more details in the coming weeks.
Collections c< » I!' d Ji- rnn pag, 2
Microforms.
Microfilm and microfic. he arc on ew
I t: o Ith in cahinets for efficient t( r­a
'. 11 micr form t cnt a. - i. tam desk is in the center of the area. Reader- copiers are with the micro­forms.
Periodicals. > Current issues - Honnold 2nd. Two copy machines, northeast corner. > Older issues - Honnold 1st. Pre­1980
volumes are on new maroon compact shelving, west side. Post- I980 volumes are on standard shelving, east side. All issues are accessible to our users. Three copy machines, northeast corner.
Reference.
Multi · tier stack, level 3, and adjacent
Mudd 2nd north. The Reference
Desk is in the middle of the Search
Center, Mudd 2nd.
Sorting/ ReshdVing.
The staging area for books waiting to
be reshelved is on Mudd 1st north,
next to the Q- Z stacks.
Special Collections Reading Room.
Honnold 2nd, northwest corner.
Library maps and call number lists are
available at the ] nformation Desk and
arc posted by elevators and stairs.
Please ask the staff at the service desks
any time you need assistance in locat­ing
your call number, and they will be
happy to guide you. •
Meg Garrett, Honnold/ Mudd R~ ference Librarian mgarn: tt@ rocky. claremont. edu
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• a hi~ l~' ssais makes the exterior a phenomenon ested individuals around the country In his .. Clar€ mont ....... ofinteriurity, and suggest~ how the author'~ presentatiun, entitled '' Take i\ 1e to the eonstructiun of a textual and interior ~ elf is Kabuki- za: Virtual VI'orld Recreations of
DISCOURSE
Claremont Discourse Lecture Series
Tall 1999
Now in its third year, Claremont Discourse pn: sents lectures by Claremont Colleges faculty on recent publication and research. Building on the success of the series, this year's Discourse has been expanded from three to four lectures per semester. Unless otherwise noted, lectures begin at 4: 15 PM in the Founder's Room of Honnold/ Mudd I. ibrary. Refreshments are served at 4: 00 PM.
As an expression of gender and se_' wal orientation, friendship tells us Illuch about our socidy. Gay, straight, male, female: these catL'gories find some of their most profound expressions in fi'iendship, which appears at the intersection of self and soci­ety.
On \ 11: tlllesda}, September 22J1d, Peter Nardi, Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, spoke about how gender inl1u­enCeS
the ways in which II'!.: f(> rJn friend­ships
and how friendship, influence the wa)' s in which we construct our gender, Pru! t: ssor N, u · di's lecture, entitled " The Role of hiendship in People's Lives," was based on his research on gay men's friend­ship,
a vantage puint that gives him unique perpectives into the issue of friendship. His n: cent hook, Ga). 1I1<: II'J 1+ lclldJlilpJ: / In'llIu'/;/ t' Cmi/ lil/ tlli/ II: S, was published by The University of Chicago Press in 1999, lit: is also the nell' editor c f Sorlulogiwl f> erspectl'VCJ, the official journal of the Pacific Soci , logical ssociatiun.
How do perceptiuns of property and a sense oCplace confer perspectiVL's uf ~ ocial IleJonging and individual dignity~ \ Vhat are the ruot~ of the modern vVesterti con­ceptiun
of properly Ilhich is at the heart of \\ eSlerll pulitics and culture~ On W" t/ Jli:,( rllI. V, O<:! o/; i'I" 6tli, Constance Jordan, Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University, will l'xpl() rt' these issues as tiKI' relate to tlte great sixteenth century French essayist \; Iil'i1e1 de MOlltaignt', Fhlll1 the [ myer in whiclt he wrote, iVlontaigne cOlTlmanded a view of his surroundinns, a vantage point that in at one with his physical environment. That relation to the physical cnvironment ~ trikes deep resonance to many for whom, at the end ofthe twentieth century and the begin­ning
of a new millenium, a sense uf physi­cal
place is evapurating, Profes~ or Jordao's lecture, entitkd '' The Propriety in an Estate: l\ 10ntaigne's EJsalJ as Social Topography," will be based on research she is conducting for a book on the histury and literature of property in the early modern period. This research follows thl'lllaticaUy from explurations of the political suhject in
Shakespeare',( j\ 1unardlil'S: Ruler alii! Subject in tile f( OIl1IiI/ Ct'S ( 1997) and of the status of
Now in its third year, Claremont Discourse presents lectures by Claremont Colleges ftcltlty on recent publication and research.
womt'n as subjects of a patriarchal order in
f( ctlaiJJallcc h: lI1illislI7: Literary 7C. YLs and Pulitlat! i\{ Ot! C/ J ( 1990), both puhlished by Cornell niversity Press, Professor Jurdan is the recipient of many fellowships and is a Illember uf the iVI LA COll1mittee on the New Variorum FJI/ IOll o{ Shakcspean:,
If a ~ cnse of place is disappearing, computer technology can, if not fully com­pcrbate,
at least upen up nell' educational plTspectives on thc past by virtually calling ! Clrllt past worlds, Bruce Coats, Associate Professor at Scripps College and an expert on Japane." art~ and architecture, has dune just that for old Japan with the creation of tll'O remarkahk interactive CD- ROM tools, F\ plorlng Ftlo and Vir/ lin! /:.; t! u, which l, vere commissioned for an exhibirjlJn at tl1e I ' aLiollal GaLlcry of , rt in \\' ashingwll, " Edo: rl illJapan 161'- IX98." Each pro­n-
r; Ull allows late twentieth- century tourists to ' xplnre locatiuns in the old city of Fda ( 1101 1( lkvo), wand ring freely through 3­dimellsiol1;
1! environments, seeing' Ihe sj,' ht, and c,:~ perien ' ing the spaces, I-.' x/, Iul'/ I/:< ;.; t! o was een h) more tklll J: l,()()() muscum visitol, and 10,000 copies have been mailed out to chools and inter- IRLh Century Japan," Professor Coats wiLl demonstrate the CD, describinfd: how the prOOTam evolved and what " long distance learning" capabilitie~ wen: explored. This unique virtual rour I~\ lill take place on ItVednesdClJ', ()(/ ober 27th in the Keck Learning Room In Honnold/ Mudd Library. In addition to publishing articles on Japanese arts, Profe~ sor Coats worked on the television t- ilm " Dream \ Vindow: Reflectiuns on the Japane e Garden."
From real and virtual space we travel to mathematical space on H- 0dileJday, Nu- vemb<: r 10//;, with " How to Cut a Cake ( and Other Things) Fairly: Mathematical Methods for Disput Resolution," a lec­ture
by Francis Edward Su, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Professor Su will look at an ~ l"" e old problcm that starts in a simple wa}' with a common scene, but has wide­ranging
implications lor many discipLines: you and a friend arc sharirw a cake, and II'ish to kno\\" how to split the cakl' in such a way that [ lOth of you are happy with the piece you get. The acre- old answer is: " one cuts, the other chooses." Now, what if three or more people are involvedi Upon reflec­tion
you will sce that this problem is a bit more complicated, In lact, the renel'al n­person
case was not solved until 1995. In his lecture, Profc$ Sor Su will review sume of the algorithms that have been developed for " fair division" of cntities, These proce­dures
have found applications in econom­ics,
political ~ ciencc, negutiation analysis, and the problem of rent- sharing: holl' to split the rmt so that h lusemates will prc[ t:! · different rooms. Prufessor Su received hi: · PhD at Harvard in 1995. iIis rese, lrch interests include probability: random walks on groups, discrepancy of sequenCl'S and probability distril) utions and ;' ame themy. He has published ~ everal articles and has .. iven talks at numerous conferences. Ln tlte Spling l) r 2lJ()(), he will he Oil leave at the Cornell University School of Operation Re. sean'h and Industrial . Engineering, •
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6/ CONNECTIONS ( f l7evvsletterji'om the lihraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges CRL Records No Longer On BLAIS
During the summer, the Blais Online Catalog went on a quick forced diet and grew lighter by about 450,000 records - representing titles held at The Center for Research Libraries ( CRL) in Chicago.
As you probably know, CRL pro­vides
an important source for students and faculty to borrow certain older and rarer materials, such as old regional and international newspapers or for­eign
dissertations. As a member, the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges also participate in a cooperative collec­tion
development program with CRL allowing for the acquisition of expen­sive
and highly specialized microform sets that we \ vould not be able to afford - or house - on our own. \ Vhy then would we eliminate the information about CRL in Blais?
JVIost importantly, Blais had only a partial representation of CRL hold­ings.
The CRL records in Blais were also the cause of much confusion that manifested itself in a number of differ­ent
ways. First on the list of " grem­lins"
were the many misleading records in Blais that pointed to titles that had the same name but were entirely dittl: rent things. Some of these were elements in a comedy of errors, such as the CRL record for " Laiks," an old Latvian American newspaper from Brooklyn, New York, which caml: up whl: n a patron searched for Time, the newswl: ekly - all because " laiks" is the Latvian word for " time." There were also many duplicate records for older issues of serials that both CRL and Claremont own. In Blais and in Ovid, thesl: duplicates would often be listed first, leading patrons to ask us how to get to CRL or why Honnoid/ IVI udd didn't subscribl: to Newsweek. Moreover, only about 30% of CRL's entire collection is represent­ed
in electronic format.
With no CRL records in Bhis, how then does one access information about CRL? CRL has developed a web based version of their electronic cata­log.
The CRL catalog is available at http:// wwwcrl. uchicago. edu/ ( also accessible from the CRL information page under " Libraries and Collections" on our web site). There you'll find plenty of information about CRL and its vast collections, and you'll be able to search specialized CRL databases. These databases include CRL Foreign Newspapers, American Ethnic Newspapers, and serials from the Russian Federation and former Soviet Union. More databases are being planned.
CRL materials can be ordered by Interlibrary Loan: just specify the OCLC number, title and author, and note that the item is coming from CRL. If you have any other questions, please contact Adam Rosenkranz at x73986 or by email. And please don't let this valuable resource go under­used.•
Adam RfJJel1krmlz, Honnold/ Afudd Reference Libl" arian arosellkranz Wrocky. clart~ motll. edt!
Our Staff
The Human Resources Team recmtly concluded a res<: arch project involving our staff in th<: Librari<: s­compiling
y<: ars of experience and degr<:<: s reccivt: d. The purpose of this proj<: ct was not only to give us an opportunity to congratulate oUt staffon their level of commitment to higher education but also to raise awareness about our staff in the Colleges commu­nity.
\ iVhile the numbers were being col­lected,
there were some surprises. " VI. Te knew that our staff was well educated; however, we were surprised by several of our staff who have received advanced degrees in mOlT than one discipline. Some are librarians, some are not. We expect those numbers will grow as several staff continue their education. In fact, many are receiving their education r~ gbt here at the Colleges, and may be students in your classes.
The compiled statistics tell us that our staff of 74 have a total of 673 years of work experience with the Colleges, 896 years of higher education that resulted in a degree, and that they are members of 16 professional organiza­tions
with some appointed or elected to be officers and committee chairs. Librarians participate in at least ten library- related associations such as the American Library Association ( ALA). A fC'.. v of Our staff also participate in organizations such as American Business Machines ( ABM) and the American Management Association ( AMA).
The Jist below represents a 68% response from our staff who reported their number and type of degree received:
Ph. D 4 MLS 26 Masters 13 BAIBS 25 AA/ AS 5
For more information about our staff, visit our web pages ( General IlIjiJrmatioll) at:
http:// voxlibris. claremont. edu/ geninfo/ dirs/ phones. html..
Glenda Ebersole, IImlnold/ I\ il/ cld Human Resources Team Leader and Graphic Designer gebersole crock)'. claFemolit. cdll
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Exhibits Calendar
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Ca/ ijiJrnia Croonin'
August 30 - October 29, 1999 Curated by Holly Gardinier, Performing Arts Librarian, this exhi­bition
showcases songs and sheet music about California or by CaLifornia composers. For more information, contact Special Collections at 607- 3977.
Navigating the West: Real and Imagined Journeys to the Pacific Coast
November 8 - Ianuary 3 L 2000 With an award of an LSTA ( Library Services and Technology Act) retrospective conversion grant by the California State Library, three of our special collections rich in source material for the study of California history are now accessible via Blais, our online catalog: the \ Vagner Collection of books and atlases of the Pacific Coast; the \ Vestern Americana Collection; and the Macpherson Collection by
and about women. Books unique to the Libraries from these collections will be on view. }-< or more information, contact Special Collections at 607 - 3977.
Denison Librar) l, Scripps College EdU: iones Dos Amigus: Illustrated Books in Limited Editimls
September 27 - November 30, 1999 Features limited edition books of this Argentine press. This traveling exhibition pres­ents
texts by South American writers iUustrated by South American artists. For more information, contact Denison Library at 607- 3941. •
Carrie lvlarsh, Denison Reference Libran · n cmarsh@ rocky. claremont. edu
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inside this issue:
Director's Column .. 1 Libraries' Web ..... 2 Collections Move . . . 2
Perspective
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What's New
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Academic Universe
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LSTA Grant
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Discourse Series ... 6 CRL Records 7 Our Staff 7 Exhibits 8 Library Hours ..... 8
a newsletterfrom the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges
FALL 1999 Volume 10 Number 1
DIRECTOR'S COLUMN
During the past year, I have been asked more than once, " Why do you keep changing thingsr" The answer is that these changes have occurred because of our need to provide for the growth of our traditional collections as well as for the new services that have accompanied technological innova­tions.
For example, as we have added electronic and multimedia services, we have had to design and aHocate space to accommodate them. As a result of this and our need to provide more shelving for growing print collections as well as improved space for our library users and staff, a complete reorga­nization
of spaces in the Honnold/ Mudd complex has been and still is essential. So, it may be easy to answer the question, but as they say, the devil is in the details.
Over a period ofabout fifteen months beginning in the summer of 1998, we moved approximately 90 percent of the general collections in Honnold/ Mudd. Some books and journals were moved twice or more over that period, and we appreciate your understanding while we completed the relocations. All journals, except current issues, are now located on Honnold 1st floor. Those published prior to 1980, including all titles formerly in storage, are housed on compact shelving installed in spring 1999. Preparations for utilizing this shelving set in motion a " domino effect" that necessitated moving some staff areas as weH as collections. AU books, with the exception ofthe J's, are now in place where they will stay this academic year.
Vve look forward this faU to a respite from construction and renovation in the building. During semester break, however, minor projects such as moving the J's into Honnold 3rd floor and preparing the South Wing for housing the Asian Studies vernacular collections will be undertaken. Then, there will be another brief respite until the end of Spring Semester. Extensive renovation of the Honnold building, soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary, is slated to begin in mid- May. Disruption in services will be inevitable as we begin projects that include a new heating and air condi­tioning
system and replacement of the electrical infrastructure. Updates during the academic year will be provided to enable you to plan according­ly
for use of collections and services. As always, we pledge to listen to your needs and to do our best to provide you resources and services necessary for your teaching and research activities. •
Bonnie Clemens Director ofI ibraries, ext. 18045 bdemens@ rocky. claremont. edu
DENISON HONNOLD/ MUDD • SEELEY G. MUDD SCIENCE SPRAGUE New and Improved Libraries' Website!
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Based on your comments and suggest. ions over the past year and a half, we have made a number of changes and enhancements to increase the usability and performance of the Libraries' website.
You may recognize the stained glass windows from our previous website but will notice that the layout and design have been optimized to best serve all of our users, regardless of individual machine or connection capabillties. The site has been reorganized with more intuitive section headings and descriptions in an effort to make things easier to find. \ Ve've also added menus to the homepage to give on- campus users with 4th generation web browsers more direct access to specific pages right from our main page. The intent of this revision is to make the Libraries' website more user- friendly in both organization and performance. Vlie hope you like it. And, as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.•
> Nand P -- Multi- tier stack ( Level
Honnold/ Mudd
1 to 2, then 4 to 7. N folios on first
Collections
floor Mudd, adjacent to Multi- tier
Location! Location! Location!
stack. P folios behind stairs on each level.)
In llbrary surveys, many of you
> Q, R, S,' T, U, v and Z -- Mudd 1st
asked that the colkctions In north, compact shelving. ( Folios at the
HonnoldlM udd be arranged more
east end, standard shelving.)
logically. A library team was formed to plan a new arrangement for the build­Locations
ofother ( o/ lectiom:
ing, and to ckal wit. h areas that were overcrowded. Moving completed, we Asian Studies.
present the new call number locations Honnold 1st floor, southeast corner,
in HonnoldlM udd Library.
mezzanine and basement.
Call tlumben:
Government Documents.
> , Ii, C, D and E -- Honnold 4th.
- International and California docu­(
Folios at tl1e end of each call number.)
ments are on New 1st nort. h.
> I,; G, H, J and K -- Honnold 3rd - United States documents are on
( J in south wing. Folios at the end of Mudd lst north, in two sets ofcompact
each call number.)
shelving near the Copy Center, and on
> Land. 1 -- New .3rd ( Folios at the Mudd lst east, behind the Multi- tier
end of each call number.)
stack.
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PERSPECTiVE
So much has changed in the ten years that I have been at the Honnold/ Mudd Library. Every year something moves; something surfaces; some­thing
disappears from view. New technology requires new configurations; new configura­tions
expose a need for new technologies. This summer I was beginning to feel com­pletely
lost. So I decided to
take a tour of our changing workplace. I started on the first floor of Honnold and mar­veled
at all those journals out of storage and in plain view. Next I climbed to the fourth floor ( Which now begins with A and ends with E); stumbled down to the third floor to find more than enough room for F­K;
zigzagged to the J's in the almost empty South Wing and skirted past Glenn as he disas­sembled
some more shelves. I bridged the New Library's L's and M's and floated down through the P's in the Multi­tier
Stacks. Then I took a quick peek into the corners of Mudd's first floor where micro­forms,
the international and California collections, books N­Z
and the reshelving area had all found new homes. Reassured and relieved, I made it back to my desk in the Search Center. It's all still here," I thought to myself. " It makes sense!" I smiled. " And
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2I CONNECTIONS a newsletter from the libraries to thefacuity of The Claremont Colleges Electronic Resources and Databases
Science Resources
The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges have some new and exciting electronic resources in the sciences. The Web of Science and the online full- text version of the American Chemical Society's journals are iu · t two of the new resources now available to the studen ts, beulty and staff of The Claremont Colle es.
Web of Science provides access to scholarly citations and abstracts for books and journals in horll the sciences and the social sciences. Going back to 1994, the Web of Science database indexes over 6,900 journals and is updated daiJy. It also provides links to manv full- text articles. This cross- dis­ciplinary
database is great for finding the most heavily cited articles and books in the science' and social sci­ences.
It is also useful for providing direct links to some of the full- text journals to which we subscrihe elec­tronic.
ally It expands and replaces Science Citation Index.
The American Chemical Society has recently made available online all of their 2 ' journab going !. Jack to 1996. ' l'he Claremont College' arc part of a group of ."\ 0 small colle'f ' s throughout the .. S. participating in a piJot project Por one year ~() r fn: e. The ACS titles can he reached throu'h Blais or through the Li!. Jraries' website ( http:// voxlibris . claremont. edu) or directly at http:// pubs . acs. org/ journals.
Subject searching for articles in the chemistry journals is !. Jest done through STN Easy ( see below).
Other society published journal collections are also availa!. Jle to The Claremont Colleges. The American Physical Society/ American Institute of Physics Electronic Journals and the Institute of Physics ( London) Electronic Journals are two more examples. Through the American Institute of Physics we get 16 full- text journals to which we subscribe in paper. From the Institute of Physics \\ Ie get all . j3 of t11eir published jour­nals.
Each collection can be re,; ched either from the Libraries' web pages, or directly at the following URLs:
AJPS/ llDP http:// ojps. aip. org/
lOP http:// www. iop. org/ EJ/ S/ l/ NCL136000/ 7Mival\ search& opt= Searchall
STN Easy is by far the easiest interface to use to search chemistry lit­crature.
A web- based resourcc, STN Easy provides access to all the journals, books, patents, etc., indexed in Chemical Abstracts from 1967- pres­ent.
New to us this year, it is only avail­abk
to Claremont Colleges students, faculty and staff before 8: 00 a. m. and after 5: 00 p. m. Monday - Friday and all day weekends. ( Use the CA Student Edition on FirstSeareh for searches at other times.) Reach STN Easy through the Libraries' website under RI'Jcardz > Data/) ases by Tit/ e.
Another great nev\! resource is th · ' set of databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. CSA provides access to over 60 biblioo'raphic and a few full- text databases in Llinlnay
1;';-'
applied life sciences, environmental science. , enginecring, materials science and more. CSA allows simultaneous searching of more than Olll; database in , rious . ubject groups. Some of tbesc
specialized databases go back as far as 1981. •
Brian Fberso! f}, Sedey G. / l1udd Science and Spragne Libraries Sciellcc Libran'an beberso! d2; rocky. claremont. edit
Mapping with GIS
GIS ( Geographic Information Systems) makes it possible to create your own maps.
Create maps showing J'UIW data or that of data provided with new map­ping
software ( ArcView GIS).
Using ArcView GIS software's powerful visualization tools, you can acceSS records from existing databases and display them on maps. The soft­ware
is a sophisticated tool for analvsis and display of gcographjc arcas ; nd data; it is the latest technology available in the fielcl.
This new software is available un the CIS workstation in the 1uLtimcdia Room in the Honnold/ Mudd Search Ceoter. GIS is availahle tor use by appointment. Thc software requires expertise, and its use will bc mediated by a librarian for the foreseeable future. Please call x18923 or x73959 to make an appointment to use GIS software.•
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3 / CONNECTIONS a newsletterfmm the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont ColLef? es What's ew CQIl1' d. from puge 3
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elta on ndex Online
New Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe provides full text news, lega. l informa­tion
( including law
journals) and some
business i. nforma­tion.
Last year two interfaces were available to access the database. One was what we think ofas " the original Lexis- Nexis." Accessible through telnet, it was command driven ( yOll type in commands at a prompt). The second was a newer web interface; it was si. mplified to make it more user­friendly,
but that simplification made it much less flexible.
In the past year Congressional Information Service, which provides access to Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe, has worked with a design team of students, faculty and librarians from CaLifornia State University at Los Angeles, The College of V. ilLiam and Mary, Georgia State University,
Tnivcn; it;', Ohiu State ni , en; ity of alifomia The Univcr Current issues - Honnold 2nd. Two copy machines, northeast corner. > Older issues - Honnold 1st. Pre­1980
volumes are on new maroon compact shelving, west side. Post- I980 volumes are on standard shelving, east side. All issues are accessible to our users. Three copy machines, northeast corner.
Reference.
Multi · tier stack, level 3, and adjacent
Mudd 2nd north. The Reference
Desk is in the middle of the Search
Center, Mudd 2nd.
Sorting/ ReshdVing.
The staging area for books waiting to
be reshelved is on Mudd 1st north,
next to the Q- Z stacks.
Special Collections Reading Room.
Honnold 2nd, northwest corner.
Library maps and call number lists are
available at the ] nformation Desk and
arc posted by elevators and stairs.
Please ask the staff at the service desks
any time you need assistance in locat­ing
your call number, and they will be
happy to guide you. •
Meg Garrett, Honnold/ Mudd R~ ference Librarian mgarn: tt@ rocky. claremont. edu
5 / CONNECTIONS a newsletter from the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges
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DISCOURSE
Claremont Discourse Lecture Series
Tall 1999
Now in its third year, Claremont Discourse pn: sents lectures by Claremont Colleges faculty on recent publication and research. Building on the success of the series, this year's Discourse has been expanded from three to four lectures per semester. Unless otherwise noted, lectures begin at 4: 15 PM in the Founder's Room of Honnold/ Mudd I. ibrary. Refreshments are served at 4: 00 PM.
As an expression of gender and se_' wal orientation, friendship tells us Illuch about our socidy. Gay, straight, male, female: these catL'gories find some of their most profound expressions in fi'iendship, which appears at the intersection of self and soci­ety.
On \ 11: tlllesda}, September 22J1d, Peter Nardi, Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, spoke about how gender inl1u­enCeS
the ways in which II'!.: f(> rJn friend­ships
and how friendship, influence the wa)' s in which we construct our gender, Pru! t: ssor N, u · di's lecture, entitled " The Role of hiendship in People's Lives," was based on his research on gay men's friend­ship,
a vantage puint that gives him unique perpectives into the issue of friendship. His n: cent hook, Ga). 1I1 erspectl'VCJ, the official journal of the Pacific Soci , logical ssociatiun.
How do perceptiuns of property and a sense oCplace confer perspectiVL's uf ~ ocial IleJonging and individual dignity~ \ Vhat are the ruot~ of the modern vVesterti con­ceptiun
of properly Ilhich is at the heart of \\ eSlerll pulitics and culture~ On W" t/ Jli:,( rllI. V, O